11.   A Russian fisherman died Wednesday of hypothermia while rescuers transported him back to land after his fishing trawler sank off northwestern Norway, emergency officials said.

12.   A seaman on the fishing trawler Oboyan disappeared Friday while the craft was en route to Russia from Japan, the news agency said.

13.   A surfacing Navy submarine sank a Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of Oahu on Friday.

14.   A Spanish fishing trawler seized by Canada was escorted to port and its captain brought before a judge as an international dispute over North Atlantic fishing rights escalated.

15.   A Russian fishing trawler sank Tuesday in the stormy Norwegian Sea, and at least one fisherman reportedly died and nine were missing.

16.   Also on Tuesday two fishing trawlers sank in high winds in the Bay of Bengal.

17.   An air and sea search continued Friday in the Irish Sea for a missing French fishing trawler whose emergency beacon was activated on Christmas Eve.

18.   At least seven fishing trawlers sank off southern Bhola and Barisal coast on Friday, police said.

19.   Canada is being sued for piracy and malicious prosecution over the armed arrest of a Spanish fishing trawler that led to an international agreement on turbot fishing.

20.   Earlier Wednesday, an explosion aboard a fishing trawler killed one person and injured six others, one seriously, in the old port of Algiers, officials said.